I deal with potential apartment owners/renters on a daily basis and here are some tips
1) Prepare yourself a budget to see what you can afford before you even look at a place, the problem I find with clients they look at places they can't afford and they would usually find it harder to accept the condition of a place within their budget.
2) Do some research on the area/s of your choice, examples follows; check what is the average rental price for a similar apartment within the area. If you don't have your own car for example, maybe you should be an apartment near decent public transportation. Some areas within certain school zones can shoot the rent prices thru the roof, so if you don't have children, you could get something outside these popular school zones up to 25% less.
3) Speak to neighbours, other tenants within the apartment block and find out how the positives and negatives of renting an apartment in the block. Ask them on how prompt are the landlord dealing with issues.
4) Get the damn tenancy agreement in writing, for fuck sake I have had so many people who only had verbal agreements and the lordland fucked with them. It was harder to dispute issues with the landlord as there was no written agreement.
Is it normal I would like to get an apartment.
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I deal with potential apartment owners/renters on a daily basis and here are some tips
1) Prepare yourself a budget to see what you can afford before you even look at a place, the problem I find with clients they look at places they can't afford and they would usually find it harder to accept the condition of a place within their budget.
2) Do some research on the area/s of your choice, examples follows; check what is the average rental price for a similar apartment within the area. If you don't have your own car for example, maybe you should be an apartment near decent public transportation. Some areas within certain school zones can shoot the rent prices thru the roof, so if you don't have children, you could get something outside these popular school zones up to 25% less.
3) Speak to neighbours, other tenants within the apartment block and find out how the positives and negatives of renting an apartment in the block. Ask them on how prompt are the landlord dealing with issues.
4) Get the damn tenancy agreement in writing, for fuck sake I have had so many people who only had verbal agreements and the lordland fucked with them. It was harder to dispute issues with the landlord as there was no written agreement.